On 9/12/2019 9:10 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
i'm almost certain this has been discussed in the past, but I don't remember what had been decided.
We don't "decide" anything here, we just discuss.
Do we say {Duj 'ar wIghaj}, or {Duj 'ar DIghaj} ?
I'd tend towards the latter, since what we're actually asking is, "how many ships do we have ?".
But I'd like to know, if there's a definite answer with regards to this matter, or it's just another "use the force" problem.
*'ar* hasn't been used much. It appears in *nIn 'ar wIghaj*/How much fuel do we have left?/ in several sources. In other places it's used the prefix doesn't distinguish singular or plural. *nIn 'ar wIghaj* isn't terribly helpful, since *nIn* /fuel/ is clearly a mass noun. So unless there's an example I can't think of, we don't have anything conclusive. I tend toward *Duj 'ar wIghaj,* because the noun that *'ar* is attached to is not allowed a plural suffix, so why not avoid a plural prefix as well? -- SuStel http://trimboli.name